Setting sail from San Francisco in March, The Plastiki, a boat constructed with 12,500 plastic bottles sailed past the Sydney Opera House Monday in a grand finale to a voyage intended to highlight the problem of plastic waste. Plastiki estimated on its web site that around 8.7 billion plastic bottles had been used in the United States since it set out. American ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich said, “The journey of the Plastiki is a journey from trash to triumph,” in a nod both to the boat’s recycled nature and its path through a large garbage patch in the Pacific. The boat will remain moored at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney for a month. For more information on The Plastiki and project, check out: http://www.theplastiki.com What do you think?
